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<h2>Health Insurance and Hours Worked By Wives </h2>

<h3>Description</h3>


<p>a cross-section from 1993
</p>
<p><EM>number of observations</EM> :  22272
</p>
<p><EM>observation</EM> :  individuals
</p>
<p><EM>country</EM> :  United States
</p>


<h3>Usage</h3>

<pre>data(HI)</pre>


<h3>Format</h3>

<p>A dataframe containing :
</p>

<dl>
<dt>whrswk</dt><dd><p>hours worked per week by wife</p>
</dd>
<dt>hhi</dt><dd><p>wife covered by husband's HI ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>whi</dt><dd><p>wife has HI thru her job ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>hhi2</dt><dd><p>husband has HI thru own job ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>education</dt><dd><p>a factor with levels, &quot;&lt;9years&quot;, &quot;9-11years&quot;, &quot;12years&quot;, &quot;13-15years&quot;, &quot;16years&quot;, &quot;&gt;16years&quot;</p>
</dd>
<dt>race</dt><dd><p>one of white, black, other</p>
</dd>
<dt>hispanic</dt><dd><p>hispanic ?</p>
</dd>
<dt>experience</dt><dd><p>years of potential work experience</p>
</dd>
<dt>kidslt6</dt><dd><p>number of kids under age of 6</p>
</dd>
<dt>kids618</dt><dd><p>number of kids 6&ndash;18 years old</p>
</dd>
<dt>husby</dt><dd><p>husband's income in thousands of dollars</p>
</dd>
<dt>region</dt><dd><p>one of other, northcentral, south, west</p>
</dd>
<dt>wght</dt><dd><p>sampling weight</p>
</dd>
</dl>



<h3>Source</h3>


<p>Olson, Craig A. (1998) &ldquo;A comparison of parametric and semiparametric estimates of the effect of spousal healpth insurance coverage on weekly hours worked by wiwes&rdquo;, <EM>Journal of Applied Econometrics</EM>, <B>13(5)</B>, september&ndash;october, 543&ndash;565.
</p>


<h3>References</h3>


<p>Journal of Applied Econometrics data archive : <a href="http://jae.wiley.com/jae/">http://jae.wiley.com/jae/</a>.
</p>


<h3>See Also</h3>

<p><code>Index.Source</code>, <code>Index.Economics</code>, <code>Index.Econometrics</code>, <code>Index.Observations</code></p>


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